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“There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.”
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“We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!”
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“Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.”
Source : "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.
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“Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.”
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“Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”
Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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“The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.”
Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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“What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.”
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“It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.